Cooking utensil.



G. MAYBE..

COOKING UTENSIL.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9. 1914v IQE.

GEORG MAYER, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF IO CONRAD NEU', OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COOKING UTENSIL.

Application filed March 9, 1914.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, GEORG MAYER, cit1- zen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooking Utensils, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The essential object of this invention is to provide a utensil particularly intended to be used as an attachment for the receptacle or receptacles in which doughnuts are cooked. As is well known in the art, the cooking of doughnuts involves the use of a v body of hot molten lard or grease, and the odors and vapors which arise, particularly when the doughnuts are cooling, is very objectionable.

It is the object of this invention, there* fore, to provide an attachment which will carry olf the undesirable vapors and yet at the same time not interfere with any of the necessary features of the cooking or cooling of the doughnuts.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is axside elevation of the invention, showing the same superposedabove a doughnut-holding receptacle and the stove or other source of heat; Fig. 2 is a view at an angle of 90 degrees to Fig. 1, the stove being removed; Fig. 3 is a detailed view of a part of the hood; and Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the doughnutholding receptacle.

'Io the wall 1 the brackets 2 and 3 are secured, said brackets being adapted to project outwardly and to grasp the hood 4, which hood is retained in fixed position above the stove 5. At the top of said hood 4 is a sleeve 5 from which a stove pipe or conduit leads to the flue or chimney of the building (not shown) and the odors or vapors of the cooling doughnuts make their exit through the sleeve 5, being carried out of the room through said sleeve and the pipe and Hue which are connected thereto.

Below the hood 4 (which hood is provided with a conical top) is a chamber 6 in the wall of which is cut the arcuate slot 7 and slot 7 should be suiiiciently large to permit access and removal of the foraminous retainer 8 within which the doughnuts are placed. The retainer 8 preferably comprises a wire-mesh basket provided with outwardly-projecting handles 9 which are conveniently in L-shaped form` having ends Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

Serial No. 823,632.

which project out beyond the wall of chamber 6'. Above the opening 7 the wall of the chamber 6 is slotted at 10 and catches or locking dogs 11 are pivoted at 12 to the wall of chamber 6 adjacent to said slots 10. The doughnutholder or foraminous retainer 8 is adapted to be moved from full-line position (Fig. 2) to dotted line position. When in full-line or lower position, said retainer is received within the kettle or caldron 13, which said kettle contains the lard or grease in which the doughnuts are cooked, and is adapted to be heated by the fire 14. 'Ihe locking dogs 1l are notched or rabbeted at 15 and the handles) seat in said notches 15 when the foraminous retainer is elevated to dotted line position-that being the position in which the dough-nuts are allowed to drain and dry after completion of the cooking operation. I-Ieretofore it has been customary to cook the doughnuts, and then to set the receptacle in which they are retained upon the floor or a table to cool. The odors, smoke, and vapor would thus be disseminated throughout the room, but by this in vention the doughnuts can be cooled and drained as necessary, and yet the smoke and vapors are all carried up the flue. In this invention, however, after the doughnuts are cooked, the retainer 8, which, of course, is filled with doughnuts, is lifted from full line to dotted line position (Fig. 2). The grease that drips from the cooked batch will fall into the caldron 13 and waste thereof is prevented. Moreover, when the retainer 8 is in elevated position, at least part of said retainer is higher than the aperture 7 which is cut in the wall of said chamber 6; hence, when the retainer is elevated, a current of air will enter said aperture 7 and pass upwardly past the doughnuts contained therein, and this current of air will pass out through the eXit 5 in the top of the hood 4, which exit is connected suitably to a chimney or iue. The doughnuts therefore, after being cooked, thus dry and drain while suspended in a current of air, and hence do not become soggy or sour as is often the case where they are simply allowed to stand upon a table in non-circulating air.

This invention, it will be obvious, keeps the drying doughnuts covered over and free from dirt and dust, holds them in a current of air, and prevents escape of the greaseand a locking member laden air or the unpleasant vapors into the room, and in these three features, among others, secures a distinct improvement in this art.

I claim as my invention:

1. A device of the character described comprisinga hood, means for conducting the -gases from said hood, a chamber beneath said hood, a oraminous retainer, the Wall of said chamber being apertured to permit passage therethrough of said retainer, and -means for suspending said retainer within `said chamber.

2. A device of the character described comprising a hood, means for conducting the gasesfrom said hood, a chamber beneath said hood, a foraminous retainer, the Wall of said chamber being apertured to permit kpassage therethrough of said retainer, a handle for said retainer, and means secured to the Wall of said chamber and adapted to venga-ge said handle, thereby to suspend the retainer Within said chamber.

3. `A device of the character described comprising a hood, means `:for conducting thegases fromsaid hood, a chamber beneath said hood, a fora-minous retainer, the Wall ofsaid chamber being apertured to permit Vpassage therethrough of said retainer, a

handle for said retainer, the Wall of said chamber `being slotted to receive said handle, upon the Wall of said chamber adapted .to engage said handle and "Copies ofthis patent may Vbe obtanedfor five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner thereby suspend the retainer in elevated position.

Il. A device oi the character described comprising a conical hood, means adapted to provide an exit therefrom through which the gases are adapted to pass, a .foraminous retainer, a chamber beneath said hood Within which said retainer is received, the wall of' said chamber being apertured, and means for suspending said retainer within said chamber, the top edge o1 said retainer being higher than said aperture.

5. A device of the character described comprising a conical hood, means adapted to provide an exit therefrom through which the gases are adapted to pass, a ioraminous retainer, a chamber beneath said hood within Which said retainer is received, the wall of said chamber being apcrtured, a handle for said retainer, the Wall of said chamber being slotted to receive said handle, and locking means adapted to engage said handle and suspend the retainer Within said chamber, said locking means being placed at a point whereby said locking means are adapted to retain said retainer higher than said aperture.

ln testimony whereof l: hereunto ailix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORG MAYE t.

Witnesses:

MAY D. FLYNN, RoB'r. KLoTz.

of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

